2014 ARIA Music Awards return to TEN

2014 ARIA awards to be broadcast on channel TEN!

Network Ten is pleased to announce it will broadcast the 2014 ARIA Awards on TEN later this year!  

This year’s ARIA Awards will showcase the best local musicians and bands, in addition to headline overseas acts.

Australian artists are currently riding a wave of international success, with Sia, Iggy Azalea and 5 Seconds of Summer topping albums and singles charts around the world. Australian artists are also dominating local charts, with home-grown acts sitting atop the ARIA singles chart for 13 of 32 weeks this year.

Network Ten Chief Programming Officer, Beverley McGarvey, said: “We are thrilled to welcome the ARIA Awards back to TEN.

“Australians have had incredible success on the world music stage this year and we cannot think of a better time to join with ARIA in celebrating that success. We are looking forward to bringing this exciting event to all Australians, exclusively on TEN.”

Denis Handlin AM, ARIA Chairman and Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment Australia and New Zealand and President, Asia, said: “We are delighted to bring the ARIAs back to TEN. The network has hosted many of the ARIA Awards’ most memorable moments and we look forward to working together to produce a great event.”

ARIA Chief Executive Dan Rosen, said: “ARIA is excited to partner with Channel Ten. Together we will create great event TV, with the ARIA stage set to showcase our incredible Australian artists who are topping charts here and around the world with special international guests. 

V8 Supercars gain championship status at Albert Park for 2015

The V8 Supercars are set to gain championship status after late last year when Ten had gotten the rights to the V8s and they are the official broadcaster of F1 in Australia. The V8 officials stepped up after the Napthine Government announced that they had extended the F1 in Melbourne. The V8 officials are anticipating of a longer arrangement but has to wait until the F1 deal has settled on an agreement.

Next years Melbourne Grand Prix March 12-15, is the last year of Ten's F1 deal. 

After eight years of V8 Supercars on 7, the V8s are switching to Fox/Ten deal on a $241m deal for 6 years starting next year.

It has been understood that FOM have already started negotiating with rights holder Ten on a possible extension to their contract, which has been believed that they want a V8-style combined deal with Fox Sports similar to BBC and SKY F1 in the UK. 

But on the other hand Seven and Nine have expressed not much interest at all with Dan Ricciardo emerging as a world title contender. 

Australian Grand Prix Co-operation says that it is a "work in progress" in regards to the formula one TV deal. 

James Warburton will announce the 2015 calendar around Sandown with him working very hard with Ten and Fox over the next 6 years as he wants to make it the best Motorsport in the country